Gerrit Cole gave up homers to his first three batters and a career-high five in 2 1/3 innings, but the New York Yankees rallied to beat the Minnesota Twins 10-7 Thursday on two homers. by Joey Gallo.
Cole trailed 7-3, and the Yankees tied the score in the sixth when Aaron Hicks hit his second home run of the season, a two-run shot. he’ popped up and allowed the ball to drop for a single.
DJ LeMahieu hit his 100th career home run, and the Yankees earned their 16th win, tying Colorado and San Francisco for the major league lead. New York improved to 14-2-2 in series and became the second team to win after allowing home runs to the first three opposition batters. The Yankees’ 41-16 record tops the major leagues.
Five of Minnesota’s first 16 batters homered off Cole, who had never before allowed more than three in a game. He allowed seven runs on eight hits, his ERA rising from 2.78 to 3.63.
Lucas Luetge, Miguel Castro (3-0), Wandy Peralta, Michael King and Clay Holmes combined for 6 2/3 innings of scoreless one-hit relief.
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Holmes lowered his ERA to 0.33, recorded his ninth save in nine chances and extended his scoreless streak to 27 innings, the longest by the Yankees since Mariano Rivera finished the 1999 season with 30 2/3.
Gallo hit a two-run homer in the second off Dylan Bundy and combined with LeMahieu for back-to-back homers in the fifth.
Aaron Judge led off the seventh with a double off Jhoan Duran (0-2) that hit the top of the wall. Judge scored on Anthony Rizzo’s single for an 8-7 lead, Hicks singled in a run later in the inning and Jovani Moran threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the eighth that got past the former Yankees catcher. Gary Sanchez.
Buxten has three two-homer games this season and six in his career, with a three-homer game at Toronto on Aug. 27, 2017.
Minnesota’s Luis Arraez, Buxton and Correa became the seventh trio of teammates to open a game with three straight home runs, starting a volley against Cole. The only previous team to lose after starting with three home runs was San Diego at San Francisco on April 13, 1987.
Arraez started the onslaught with a 2-for-2 changeup, hitting a tying drive 396 feet into the right-field seats for his second home run this season.
Buxton drove the next pitch, a hanging slider, 422 deep into the upper deck of left field for his 14th home run.
Correa fouled out on a pitch, then blasted a 413-foot cutter into the lower deck of left field for his fourth home run and a 3-1 lead.
The previous trio to accomplish the feat was Arizona’s Jarrod Dyson, Ketel Marte and David Peralta facing Jerad Eickoff in Philadelphia on June 10, 2019.
Buxton gave the Twins a 6-3 lead in the second with a three-run homer off a cutter, a 370-foot drive to left, and Trevor Larnach hit a solo homer off a fastball in the third, sending the ball 441 feet inside. the second cover in the right center.
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